In Today's Catholic World News Blog

Vintage French postcard (image) of the incorrupt body of St. Catherine Labouré (d. 1876) -
displayed in The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, in 40 Rue du Bac, Paris, France.
It is in this chapel where the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Labouré in 1830
and requested the creation of the medal that came to be known as the Miraculous Medal.

TCW is offering a free miraculous medal, blessed by a True Catholic priest [with *jursidiction], to fellow True Catholics. For more details, contact the TCW Staff here. 

(From The Preface): "The little treatise of which the present is a translation, was published in Dutch, at Bois-le-Duc, by Fr. R. Pierick, S. J. Fifteen thousand copies were bought up in a few months by the Catholics of Holland. ... The Catechism unites clearness and brevity with theological exactness.

May the present edition meet with the same favor as the preceding, and assist to spread and promote ever more and more the knowledge of, and the devotion to, the Sacred Heart of Jesus."

CLICK this link to read, *Catechism of the

Devotion to The Sacred Heart of Jesus (1874 A.D.)

*This text was published by the Church approved, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic periodical; the print organ of The Apostleship of Prayer, a pious association founded in 19th Century France by the Jesuits. There were many editions in various languages, promoting devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the late 1940s, The Messenger was banned in many Soviet Block countries.

(Click image to enlarge it, of St. Catherine of Siena in Ecstacy)

"One day when meditating on this verse, 'Create in me a new heart,' she beheld her Divine Spouse approach and touch her left side with His hand. She immediately experienced such a shock of pain and love in it as to cause her to swoon with happiness. Amazed and dumfounded, for it seemed to her that her Spouse had taken her heart from her breast, she saw Him reappear with a luminous heart in His hand. At this sight, the virgin sank trembling and fainting. The Divine Spouse approaching, these tender words reached her ear: 'My daughter, I have thy heart and I give thee Mine, that thou mayest forever live in Me.' From that day *Catharine had not only a wound in her left side, which crowds came to contemplate respectfully after her death, but in her heart so active a fire that, in comparison with it, all material fire seemed cold. Along with that fire, she felt an elevation of soul, a purity, a generosity, and such transports of love as commanded the admiration of the fourteenth century."

*Catharine is an alternative spelling of Catherine. -ED 

(Source: "Revelations Of The Sacred Heart To Blessed Margaret Mary, And The History Of 

Her Life", From the French of Monseigneur Bougaud, Bishop of Laval, pp. 137-138, 1890 A.D.)